[178401] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Fri Feb 27 13:56:18 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:34:57 +0000
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Bill,
This is not feasible. ISPs work by oversubscription, so it's never possible=
for all (or even 10% of all) customers to simultaneously demand their full=
bandwidth. If ISPs had to reserve the full bandwidth sold to each customer=
in order to "do everything reasonably within your power to make sure I can=
access the Internet sites of my choice at X megabits per second", then bro=
adband connections would cost thousands of dollars per month.
Anyone who doesn't understand this fundamental fact of Internet distributio=
n will be unable to engage in reasonable discussion about ISP practices.
On Feb 27, 2015, at 9:56 AM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us<mailto:bill@her=
rin.us>>
wrote:
Deceit is Bad Behavior. If you sell me an X megabit per second
Internet access service, you should do everything reasonably within
your power to make sure I can access the Internet sites of my choice
at X megabits per second.
